The Challenge of a Farmhouse Son-in-Law
Chapter 665 - 676 This is Mother’s Friend

Chapter 665: Chapter 676 This is Mother’s Friend

Young Master Xie let out a light sigh and whispered, "I was afraid you wouldn’t accept it, so..."

"So it was you who sent it," Miss Du said with a brief look of surprise before continuing indifferently, "Please come in first. Make yourselves at home. I still have guests, so I won’t be able to attend to you."

Xie Qinyun didn’t say much and smiled, "Then you go ahead, I’ll just let myself in."

"Mm," Miss Du hummed softly and then pulled Xie Qinyun aside to whisper, "Miss Lin and Doctor Gu are in the T-shaped room upstairs. If you’re looking for them, you should be careful since Doctor Gu has brought her dog along."

"Alright, thank you."

Similarly, Xie Qinyun brushed past Young Master Xie without a word, as if he were a stranger to her.

Miss Du was busy back and forth, attending to the guests, while Young Master Xie never entered the house and stood by the door, watching her bustling figure.

Gu Youyou and Lin Qianqing, standing by the window, found the view uninteresting and turned back to their seats to drink tea.

"Cousin, do you think Miss Du has come to terms with it?"

Gu Youyou pecked at her light tea and said with a faint smile, "What’s there to come to terms with? Three-legged toads are hard to find, but aren’t there plenty of two-legged men? As long as one is outstanding enough, why fear the lack of men falling over themselves to court her?"

Lin Qianqing had grown accustomed to Gu Youyou’s way of thinking, but hearing these progressive thoughts still shocked her somewhat.

Luckily, Xiang Chun, who was sent to get meat for Abao, had not returned, or she might have been scared silly by Gu Youyou’s words.

Elsewhere, Xie Qinyun had gone upstairs and knocked on their door.

Lin Qianqing said excitedly, "It must be Qinyun. I’ll go open the door."

As she got up to open the door, Gu Youyou said from behind in a faint voice, "How do you know it’s not Xiang Chun returning?"

Lin Qianqing’s hand paused mid-air as she turned back to smile at Gu Youyou, "Xiang Chun is a meticulously trained maid. Her knocks should be careful and the volume just right. It wouldn’t sound like this, so urgent and forceful. Whoever it is seems... excited and eager. So I guess it must be Xie Qinyun, and she’s eager to share the gossip from her family with us."

Lin Qianqing’s analysis was on point, and Gu Youyou gave her a thumbs up, saying, "Cousin, you’ve really improved lately. Good analysis."

Living in a large household, a woman needed to be shrewd to survive; perhaps her aunt was right—only a person like her could emerge as a victor in the inner courtyards.

This had nothing to do with her mother’s family status; with her disposition and tactics, even if she were of the same status as the other women raised by her uncle, she would still stand out.

Upon opening the door, indeed, they saw Xie Qinyun and her maid enter happily.

"You all arrived so early! Oh, what a big dog!"

No sooner had she finished greeting Gu Youyou and Lin Qianqing than she saw Abao lying on the floor, looking up at her.

Gu Youyou gently patted Abao’s head and spoke to it softly.

"This Miss Xie here is a friend of mother’s, you can’t scare her."

"Mother?" Xie Qinyun was taken aback by the appellation and promptly sent her maid downstairs to fetch some food, then closed the door and sat as far from Abao as possible.

Lin Qianqing laughed, "Its mother is my cousin."

She herself had been startled when she first heard Gu Youyou introduce Abao that way; her cousin was truly unique in every sense.

Xie Qinyun chuckled awkwardly, "Doctor Gu is really... this is too... unique." She had meant to say that Gu Youyou’s behavior with the dog was quite unreasonable.